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On 2/21/25 03:19, Arno Welzel wrote:
> bad sector, 2025-02-20 13:48:
> 
>>
>> I want to save some received voice messages to a usb stick; how to do?
>> Are these plain mp3's in there somewhere?  TIA.
> 
> No, there are no "plain mp3" anywwhere. By default, all data in Android
> is usually stored internally in the protected data folder of the
> respective app *or* on a server and the app just loads the data from
> that server.
> 
> Maybe the app itself does an export, save or "share" feature. When
> "sharing" the recording you should be able to select a file manager app
> to save it somehwere.
> 
> One thing you can always do is to play back the message and record it
> using an audio recorder on another device.
> 

That's what I did; actually the messages were sent messages via 
faecesbook messenger, all other avenues smelled bad in addition to being 
more than less workable.